Why not sort the hilitedLines first?
Thanks Jan but, the line order has to
remain as is, or else my users
would get distracted/confused by
the visual effect.
Nicolas,
Jan's handler doesn't sort the actual contents of your list, just a
copy of the hilitedLines.
So, the list's line order and its display remain unaffected. The user
will simply see their selected lines disappear, which is the desired
behavior.
I remember being totally stumped in the early HyperCard days by the
same problem - how to delete a container's lines in a repeat loop? It
didn't seem possible, because as soon as you deleted a line the line
numbers would change and you'd end up deleting lines you should have
kept. I tried all sorts of complex gyrations, including actually
inserting numbers before the lines! Then a kind soul, Steve Nelson I
think, advised, "Just work backwards." So simple! It taught me a
bigger lesson. Sometimes a solution appears when you just flip the
problem upsidedown.
Jim Lambert
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put the hilitedLines of me into tHilitedLines
sort items of tHilitedLines numeric descending
repeat for each item tLineNumber in tHilitedLines
delete line tLineNumber of me
end repeat
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